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Little Things

1. Eating with your hands - learning to eat one-handed is still a challenge but I'm definitely getting better at it and I'm pretty good at peeling meat off a chicken thigh with my right hand now. The food is also great even if I'm going to have permanent yellow staining on my tongue and fingernails for three months due to all this turmeric!

2. Cold showers - Dhaka's pretty dusty so that and the sun cream can really clog up your skin. There's no hot water so we have to brace ourselves every time we get under the shower head. I'm savouring having a shower head at the moment since I reckon it'll be a bucket job once we're in the villages although as it gets hotter I imagine I'll appreciate the cold water more.

3. Mosquitoes - evil little buggers get everywhere but at least they don't carry malaria in Dhaka.

4. Morning prayers - I've actually taken to sleeping with ear plugs since Dhaka is truly a city that never sleeps! Half of the city then wakes up at 5am with the call of the muezzin. I've started waking up naturally just before this starts but luckily I now go straight back to sleep again. Quite looking forward to Buddhist Chittagong since I know nothing about Buddhism at all
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